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China Internet Authority Formalizes Regulations For Live-Streaming Industry (reuters.com)
Chinese internet authorities have formalized controversial rules regulating the country's fast-growing live-streaming video industry, in a move that strips out smaller competitors and places hard-line surveillance measures on leading firms. Reuters reports:In an announcement posted on their website on Friday, the Cyberspace Administration of China grouped a handful of earlier restrictions under a final 24-point regulation that will come into effect on Dec. 1. The rules require streaming services to log user data and content for 60 days, and work with regulators to provide information on users who stream content that the government deems threatening to national security or social order. Both users and providers are punishable under the regulations. The law also codifies rules that ban online news broadcasting services from original reporting, requiring them to identify sources and non-selectively reproduce state-sanctioned information.
Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
1. It's hard to maintain smug superiority if there's no "villain" to point a finger at.
2. This is a great distraction, who while being busy beating their chests over how evil China is, they don't notice the stuff happening locally.
Show us how to go fix them.
Table-ized A.I.
I say something when it happens in the US because I'm broadcasting the fact that my anger and/or disgust on that issue has incremented.
My disdain and disgust for the totalitarian regime in China is already maxed out so there's no way to increment and therefore no need to broadcast.
Censorship, by the way, is the very least of the Chinese regime's crimes against humanity.